Tau-whare-kiokio

"Leaning over in the shade." One of the wives of Rangi (Raki). He was by her the father of Taku-waka-hara (ceremony to avert evil), who begat Taku-rangi (ceremony to heaven), who begat Kahika (the ancient).

Tau-whare-kioko is also mentioned as the personified form, or mother, of all tree ferns, who was impregnated by Tāne.1